How we work

How We Work

Recruit4Work recruiters are experts at identifying rare candidates and attracting them to your business.

We employ an innovative and transparent process on every recruitment assignment undertaken to ensure exceptional results. This process works effectively whether we are recruiting a Finance Director for a large corporate, a Sales Director for a start-up, or a Managing Director for an SME, plus everything in between.

As a client, you can track our progress via a password protected area on our website. This ensures a totally transparent service where you are always in control. Above all you will start to see results very early on, and have confidence throughout. Our clients with multiple stakeholders or overseas offices find this feature particularly helpful.

Understand

Initial telephone call to understand your requirement(s)

Meet with your Managing Consultant, who will run and deliver your search

Define the role specification in detail at meeting

Define the candidate specification in detail at meeting

Explore and understand why the role is attractive

Outline our process

At Recruit4Work we believe in the importance of continuity throughout our dealings together which is why the person you meet will be the person who delivers your project.

Meeting you will help us to gain a thorough understanding of your role and why it would be attractive to your target candidates, who will be high calibre individuals who may not be actively looking for a new job.

We provide you with an assignment report to review after the meeting which details our understanding of what you are looking for and why it is such an attractive opportunity.

Identify

Original research to identify target companies

Approval of target companies by client

Identification of target candidates within target companies

Approval of target candidates by client

Both lists posted to secure, password-protected assignment dashboard

Not all “recruiters” are the same.

By operating as generalists we are able to offer our clients access to all potential candidates.

A specialist recruiter can NEVER offer this as many of the businesses they should be targeting for your role will never appear on their target lists.

If they specialise, they already recruit FOR your competitors and therefore cannot recruit FROM them.

A specialist simply cannot approach all of the best candidates.

Our assignment dashboard gives you full transparency throughout, so that you can see we deliver exactly what we promise.

Approach

Initial discreet approach by phone to each target candidate

Result of every approach is documented

Additional market information is collected

Salary is benchmarked

Promoting your company and the benefits of the opportunity, we approach all of your target candidates discreetly.

For each approach we document the outcome and record this in a progress report, available via the assignment dashboard.

We take the time to explain to you why those candidates who don’t make it to the next stage are either unsuitable or not interested.

We also benchmark the salary, which helps when negotiating with your preferred candidate.

We make sure to collect useful market information throughout, giving a valuable insight into how your competitors are doing.

Assess

Initial in-depth telephone screening by In-House Researcher

Second stage telephone screening by Managing Consultant

Full face-to-face behavioural interview with Managing Consultant

Full face-to-face competency based interview with Managing Consultant

Psychometric profiling as per client requirements

Reference checking

At every stage of our process we are assessing potential candidates against your requirements to ensure the best fit from a cultural point of view, as well as from a skills and experience perspective.

All candidates are interviewed by the Recruitment Manager – the person you met during the initial phase and the person who remains your point of contact throughout.

Our process is rigorous and designed to assess and identify consistency of information, strengths, weaknesses and any potential concerns.

Psychometric profiling can be included at no extra cost and we reference check all candidates.

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